Mumps, Measles, Rubella News
April 19, 2024
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Dec. 21, 2023 Researchers mapped how the measles virus mutated and spread in the brain of a person who succumbed to a rare, lethal brain disease. New cases of this disease, which is a complication of the measles virus, may occur as measles reemerges among the ...
Oct. 2, 2023 Altered measles and mumps viruses could be used as a platform to create a trivalent COVID-19 vaccine that triggers immunity to multiple variant strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, new research in animals ...
Jan. 11, 2023 Vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against influenza, coronaviruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have proved exceptionally difficult to develop. Researchers now explore the challenges and outline approaches to improved ...
July 27, 2022 New research has advanced COVID-19 vaccine work in several ways: using a modified live attenuated mumps virus for delivery, showing that a more stable coronavirus spike protein stimulates a stronger ...
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Oct. 18, 2022 Virologists have reverse-engineered an elusive virus linked to chronic kidney disease in cats and described its mechanism of infection, outlining the zoonotic potential of RNA viruses in the ...
Sep. 13, 2022 Current vaccination strategies are unlikely to eliminate measles, according to a new study. The paper explores the feasibility of eliminating measles and rubella using predominant vaccination ...
July 20, 2022 Paramyxoviruses have the potential to trigger a devastating pandemic. This family of viruses includes measles, Nipah virus, mumps, Newcastle disease and canine distemper. An international team has ...
Oct. 14, 2021 Researchers have described a novel host strategy for combating viruses such as measles virus that affect the mitochondria, structures within the cell. The presence of the RNA genome of the measles ...
Apr. 29, 2021 More than a quarter of American infants in 2018 had not received common childhood vaccines that protect them from illnesses such as polio, tetanus, measles, mumps and chicken pox, new research ...
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Oct. 3, 2022 As of late September 2022, nearly 78 percent of U.S. adults but only 31 percent of children ages 5 to 11 had completed the primary set of vaccinations against COVID-19, according to health ...